My Secret Garden; Women's Sexual Fantasies by Nancy Friday

My Secret Garden; Women's Sexual Fantasies

by Nancy Friday

This classic really launched the genre of "women's erotica" with the first edition published more than 25 years ago! Not works of fiction, but a collection of over 200 actual sexual fantasies that women described to Nancy Friday, with nothing held back. The real fantasies are combined with Friday's observations of the role fantasy plays in the sexual libido of women, and her description of how many female feminists and men initially objected or rejected the concept that women actually had sexual fantasies.

Chapters themes include: Daydreams, Masturbation, The Lesbians, Exploration, Insatiability, The Audience, Rape, The Thrill of the Forbidden, The Zoo, Big Black Men, Pain and Masochism, Other Women, Women Do Look, Young Boys, Prostitution and many more.

A Fairy Godmother personal note about My Secret Garden: This was my first book of women's erotica; I bought it almost 30 years ago when I was in college. The scope of what fantasies turn women on is staggering and wide ranging and there's a bit of everything (although there's nothing gruesome, there are a few fantasies of rape, abduction, and incest). But with so many fantasies, over 200, it is easy to simply skip the ones that aren't for you and mark your favorites. The only thing that I don't like about the collection is that some of the fantasies are only two-three paragraphs long and arousal-wise, that's not long enough, but there are plenty that are!

Fantasy themes: Straight, multiples-group sex, lesbian, some bondage and dominance, anal play, phone sex, exhibition, gay men, animals, abuction.

Number of Stories: 200+ fantasies

Pages/Cover: 442 pages, Paperback

Book dimensions: 8.25” x 5.25”